What we know about the first college basketball game ever played
Geneva College and Vanderbilt University claim the first college basketball game, both in 1893, while Hamline and Minnesota A&M played the first intercollegiate game in 1895.source https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2023-01-18/what-we-know-about-first-college-basketball-game-ever-played